"Haiti quake milestone is a day of mourning; Interfaith service held" by Paisley Dodds, Associated Press | February 13, 2010
A woman prayed at a service outside the ruins of a cathedral held in commemoration of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. (Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Atop the rubble of destroyed churches, in parks and on sidewalks, thousands of Haitians prayed yesterday in a national day of mourning, one month after a magnitude-7 earthquake killed more than 200,000 and left this Caribbean country struggling for survival.
Leaders of Haiti’s two official religions - a Catholic bishop and the head of the Voodoo priests - joined Protestant ministers for a prayer service in the shade of mimosa trees near the shattered National Palace. A Muslim preacher also attended....
Looks like everyone was there except the (rhymes with) you-know-whos.
People raised their hands to the heavens as they sang. Hymns and gospel music pumped throughout the city’s apocalyptic landscape of flattened concrete and buildings uprooted at strange angles from their foundations....
Yup, the place hasn't really been helped at all a month later.
WTF has the world been doing?
I wouldn't know because I read the Boston Globe.
Some Haitians have been asking whether God has abandoned their country, the world’s first black republic, founded in 1804 after a slave rebellion. One Catholic leader blamed nature....
Oh, I'm so sick of the subtle Zionist racism of the Zionist AmeriKan newspapers.
Also see: Haiti Was a HAARP
Yup, neither God nor nature; it was MAN!
Since the quake, some Voodoo followers have converted to Christianity, some enticed by steady aid flows through evangelical missions, others out of a fear of God.
I don't fear my God.
He is a kind and loving God, and if not, then he is not mine.
“The earthquake scared me,’’ said Veronique Malot, a 24-year-old who joined an evangelical church two weeks ago when she found herself living in one of the city’s many outdoor camps. “Voodoo has been in my family but the government isn’t helping us. The only people giving aid are the Christian churches.’’
Incredible!
Voodoo evolved in the 17th century when the French brought slaves to Haiti from West Africa. Slaves forced to practice Catholicism remained loyal to their African spirits in secret by adopting Catholic saints to coincide with African spirits. Today, many practice both religions in tandem.
Since the quake, Scientologists, Mormons, Baptists, Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other missionaries have flocked to Haiti in droves - feeding the homeless, treating the injured, and preaching the Gospel in squalid camps where some 1 million people now live.
Notice one group missing, readers?
And Haiti was no paradise before, either!
In many of them, trucks with loudspeakers blast evangelical music while missionaries talk to families under tarps.
Missionaries take a big wrap here in the Zionist-controlled U.S.; however, AT LEAST THEY ARE THERE and TRYING to HELP!
Yeah, they have conversion on their mind, but when it comes with a PLATE of FOOD, I would listen!!!
The US Agency for International Development channels hundreds of millions of dollars in overseas aid each year through faith-based groups, though there is no definitive tally of how much of the aid for Haiti comes through Christian groups....
AID = CIA, did you know that?
More than 1 million people have been left homeless, with aid agencies rushing to provide shelter before the rains come....
Oh, FLOODING RAINS are coming to the TENT CAMPS?
Other than the earth opening up and swallowing the whole place, can things get much worse for the long-suffering Haitians?
President Rene Preval made no mention of the many small demonstrations this week demanding that he resign over a lack of leadership amid the crisis....
And that's about all I saw in my papers!
--more--"Nothing much anymore about the failed aid effort, either!
